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I recently tweeted this: The problem with Eureka Seven Ao is that there are too many fun characters. Oh, wait…that’s not a problem. Obviously, I’m really digging the show. Besides the wonderful action pieces and terrific...

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Charles Dunbar, the Anime Anthropologist, posted a section of his masters thesis on his website, Study of Anime. Entitled “All Roads Lead to Otakon – Pilgrimage and Anthropology of the Anime Convention,” the essay discusses the...

This is the fifth in a series of Aniblogger Testimony posts, where select writers will discuss their personal faith. Today’s post is by Ed of Manga Out Loud. The previous posts in this series were written...

Are Christianity and anime two forms that are so different, they can’t be successfully combined? Should one even try? In a post that largely focuses on the anime and religion survey conducted here a while back, The Angry Otaku...

This is the first in a series of Aniblogger Testimony posts, where select writers will discuss their personal faith. This post is by the always-amazing Lauren Rae Orsini of Otaku Journalist. When I think about the...

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Another off-topic post (perhaps I’m doing too many personal ones these days), but I felt the need to write. And so, here’s how Alexandra Wallace got it wrong, point by point (without nitpicking grammar)....

I was dusting out blog drafts, and found this completed entry among them. I don’t know if I would’ve written it today…but nonetheless, here it is! Several years ago, while I was still in college and...